Bangladesh: academic harassed by university over social media posts
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Cambodia: laid-off workers still uncompensated, protest met with aggression
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Bangladesh: NGO secretary and director sentenced to two years (Update)
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Thailand: pro-democracy student sentenced to 2 years in prison
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Myanmar: media worker sentenced to twenty years imprisonment
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Myanmar: detained labour rights defenders released, forced to sign junta pledge (Update)
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India: four media workers faced charges filed by local authorities
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Philippines: two young environmental WHRDs abducted
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Pakistan: media worker under criminal investigation over social media posts
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China: economics professor sentenced to prison for estimating government personnel costs
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Vietnam: jailed environmental lawyer assaulted for reporting threats (Update)
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Vietnam: pro-democracy defender lost appeal, barred from meeting his lawyer (Update)
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Pakistan: media worker arrested, physically assaulted by police officers
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India: media worker siblings subjected to arson attack, threats of death and rape
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Vietnam: blogger's sentence upheld upon appeal (Update)
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India: minority and environmental rights defender kept in judicial custody
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India: EHRD abducted ahead of a media conference
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Vietnam: pro-democracy defender's family surveilled ahead of his appeal hearing
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Kyrgyzstan: independent media outlet sued by the state over government criticism
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Thailand: university students convicted over art installation (Update)
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Nepal: media workers attacked while reporting
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Vietnam: imprisoned HRD had his cell entered by armed men (Update)
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Kazakhstan: jailed HRD tortured by prison authorities
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Philippines: community-based defender arrested on false charges, red-tagged
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Afghanistan: brother of detained HRD arrested
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Kyrgyzstan: media worker detained for 48 hours
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Thailand: pro-democracy defender sentenced to 3 years and 6 months (Update)
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China: Tibetan WHRD denied hospital treatment after police beating
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Myanmar: pro-democracy WHRD arrested along with husband and son
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Vietnam: EHRD charged for 'abusing democratic freedoms'
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India: media worker reported to the police by education department officer
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China: key LGBTIQ+ social media accounts shut down
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Sri Lanka: Tamil media workers held captive by mob for 5 hours
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China: political commentator detained with unclear charges
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Thailand: media outlet editorial team and editor-in-chief sued for defamation
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Kazakhstan: pro-democracy defender's sentence upheld after appeal (Update)
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Thailand: student sentenced to prison for royal defamation
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India: news outlet social media blocked ahead of workers' convention
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Bangladesh: university-based media worker attacked by students
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Thailand: seven HRDs sentenced for protesting the Myanmar military coup
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Nepal: media worker attacked for reporting
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Pakistan: lawyer arrested along with Pashtun minority leader, house raided
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Afghanistan: eight WHRDs detained ahead of a protest
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India: Kashmiri media outlet website and social media blocked, office evicted
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India: CSOs, their staff prevented from staging event
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China: Tibetan HRD attacked, then harassed by police, doctor, and hotel
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Pakistan: Pashtun protesters barred from entering Islamabad
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Nepal: media workers attacked for reporting domestic violence
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Kazakhstan: media worker assaulted while covering mining deaths
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India: lawyer and peasant leader detained
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Cambodia: Bunong HRDs barred from joining land conflicts meeting
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Thailand: prominent pro-democracy WHRD accused of royal defamation again
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Vietnam: imprisoned HRD mistreated, still deprived of daily necessities
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Cambodia: ten land rights defenders convicted
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Myanmar: detained pro-democracy doctor killed
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Nepal: media workers receive death threats for reporting irregularities
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Viet Nam: popular stand-up comedian abducted, arrested for criticising the government
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Bangladesh: media workers brutally attacked while reporting
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Vietnam: blogger remained in custody after supposed release date (Update)
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Sri Lanka: unionist, lawyer and 14 others arrested for protesting
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Kazakhstan: media worker tortured and sexually abused by the police
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China: ten Hong Kong pro-democracy defenders arrested over relief fund
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Afghanistan: radio station raided, two media workers arrested
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Myanmar: head of charity group re-arrested by the military (Update)
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India: WHRD and media worker stopped from attending a peace march
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India: media worker assaulted for critical online post
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Bangladesh: CSO director has bank details being requested by government agency as latest form of harassment
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Nepal: media worker faced threats and issued an arrest warrant
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China: parents of overseas WHRD questioned by Hong Kong police
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Thailand: eighteen protesters summoned under various charges
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Thailand: WHRD faced royal defamation charges and attacked online
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India: nine anti-mining EHRDs faced charges
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Indonesia: residents forcibly repatriated after a 6-day protest, at least 14 arrested
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Philippines: labour leader faces surveillance, harassment
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India: two Adivasi HRDs abducted, police attempted to abduct a third one
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Philippines: visual artist and three others charged for burning an effigy during a protest
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Nepal: media worker attacked while reporting
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Myanmar: land rights defenders forced to relocate, seven arrested
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Vietnam: FoRB activist re-arrested years after release
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Cambodia: three land rights WHRDs convicted
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Lao PDR: pro-democracy defender interrogated for trying to meet detained fellow HRD
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Vietnam: social media activist brutally beaten during interrogation
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Nepal: NGO staff physically assaulted by a police officer
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Vietnam: five Khmer Krom HRDs arrested, police also sieged the home of two others
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Nepal: media worker severely beaten by a police officer
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Indonesia: four residents reported to the police by an agricultural company
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Afghanistan: media outlet shut down for holding training for female journalists
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Sri Lanka: media worker arrested and beaten by the police
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Lao PDR: Chinese lawyer arrested by the police
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Bangladesh: families protesting against enforced disappearances met with tear gas
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Myanmar: three student leaders tortured and killed
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Thailand: 74-year-old WHRD charged for defamation over protest speech
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Vietnam: academic sentenced to 5-year imprisonment (Update)
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Sri Lanka: student protest confronted with water cannons
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Sri Lanka: trade unionists prevented from protesting upon court order
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India: peaceful demonstrators met with violence
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Sri Lanka: commemoration of anti-Tamil riots disturbed by security forces
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China: LGBTIQ+ radio show axed by government-funded broadcaster
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Malaysia: lawyer and SOGI rights defender survived a car-bombing attempt
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Vietnam: imprisoned HRD had his daily necessities and medical equipment confiscated
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Indonesia: protesters met with police violence while doing a joint prayer
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Thailand: pro-democracy youth found guilty of royal defamation and COVID-19 violations (Update)
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Maldives: media worker assaulted by the police while reporting
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Myanmar: pro-democracy defender tortured in jail
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Afghanistan: women protest violently dispersed
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Kazakhstan: local residents clashed with workers from a gold-production facility
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Myanmar: student union member sentenced to another 5 years in prison
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Kyrgyzstan: three HRDs detained for protesting on scarce drinking water supplies
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Thailand: six defenders summoned for a protest
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Afghanistan: activities of humanitarian aid organisation halted by the Taliban
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Philippines: three media workers harassed and reportedly shot at
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Thailand: Chinese HRD and family members barred from flying to Ecuador
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Vietnam: land rights defender appeal sentence upholds imprisonment amidst trial irregularities (Update)
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Vietnam: Buddhist monk requested by the police to stop posting critical comments online
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Thailand: crowd disrupted as police blocked the road and declared a no-protest zone
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Vietnam: social media activist re-apprehended, his family faced threats and intimidation (Update)
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China: Mongolian herders bulldozed by land-grabbers while protesting
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Cambodia: two media outlets and a public database blocked upon government order
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Philippines: two environmental WHRDs arrested while researching
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Indonesia: media worker intimidated by the police, forced to delete photos
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China: family members of exiled HRD questioned by the police
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Philippines: four indigenous HRDs red-tagged by the Anti-Terrorism Council
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Nepal: media worker physically attacked for exposing corruption allegations
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Vietnam: former health teacher arrested for 'anti-state propaganda'
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Indonesia: LGBTIQ+ advocacy event forcefully moved following significant security threats
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Kazakhstan: media worker sentenced to 20-day detention for defamation
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Bangladesh: detained student leader's bail repeatedly denied, hearing adjourned
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Myanmar: two media outlets threatened by the junta, seven workers faced charges
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India: women NGO staff face criminal charges
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Myanmar: seven labour rights defenders arrested, tried for demanding pay rise
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Vietnam: NGO-led news site suspended for three months
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Vietnam: former lawyer imprisoned for "abusing democratic freedoms"
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China: missing Laos-based social media activist resurfaced in a detention center (Update)
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Vietnam: social media activist arrested by the police
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Vietnam: blogger officially charged for distributing anti-state propaganda (Update)
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Sri Lanka: two social media activists summoned over online remarks
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Malaysia: Myanmar refugee WHRD and her family abducted
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Cambodia: land rights WHRD summoned by court following land dispute
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Vietnam: social media activist handed down 6-year imprisonment
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China: popular media outlet shut down by the government
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Kyrgyzstan: WHRDs receives online insults
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Cambodia: eleven land rights defenders detained, dozen others threatened
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Myanmar: WHRD handed down 7-year jail term
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Myanmar: alternative media outlet publisher sentenced
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Myanmar: SOGI rights defender sentenced on terrorism charges
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Vietnam: social media activist arrested for "abusing democratic freedoms"
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Thailand: two defenders sentenced on royal defamation charges
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Nepal: media worker verbally abused and briefly detained
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy defender arrested again
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Bangladesh: labour rights defender murdered
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Philippines: WHRD, other peasant leaders arrested
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Vietnam: Khmer Krom HRD tortured during interrogation
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Kazakhstan: media worker charged again instead of being released after serving additional sentences
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Philippines: WHRD faces spurious accusations
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Kazakhstan: HRD detained for illegal drug possession
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Nepal: media worker attacked by a group of assailants
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Bangladesh: lawyer and SOGI rights supporter receives fresh wave of online harassment
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China: WHRD's trial suspended following court harassment against her defence lawyers
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Philippines: four farmers arrested on cyber libel charges
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Afghanistan: media worker detained and tortured after returning to the country
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Vietnam: detained blogger sent to faraway prison (Update)
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Bangladesh: journalist beaten to death after reporting on a local politician
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Philippines: couple of farmer leaders, their children murdered after receiving harassment
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China: pro-democracy lawyer, family monitored and harassed at home
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Myanmar: ten labour rights defenders missing following arrest
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Vietnam: police in pursuit of three lawyers representing persecuted Buddhist group
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Thailand: 12 pro-democracy defenders found guilty of sedition, fined
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Myanmar: hundreds of labour rights defenders intimidated during a protest
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Myanmar: seven labour rights defenders fired after requesting a raise
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India: judicial custody of two prominent HRDs extended for forty-five days (Update)